Katherine was gentle and diffident. The conviction grew within her that she owed her undoubted social success to the fact that she was an heiress. In the country Katherine found an occupation to her liking, and a gentleman who won first her respect and then her affection, who was reluctant to woo her because of his own modest fortune. The problem was eventually solved by the intervention of the unprincipled fortune-hunter Viscount Sandiford.